@badp Sorry but your solution in not feasible because Gae imposes a 30 seconds limits per request. In this 30 seconds, StackPrinter via UrlFetch pulls all the questions details from Stack Exchange (you have questions with hundreds of answers!); adding more data fetching from the service you suggest would surely exceed the 30 seconds limit (there are questions with hundreds of url to shorten). Like i said, it would mean a full blown shorten urls service on stackprinter. (in bocca al lupo per gli esami)

have you resolved?

@swanson cool, i'm going to try it this evening..thanks.

@Carson found it. Uhm, imho you should integrate userid and frequence configurations in one single panel reachable from Swatch option entry on tools menu or from preferences on Add-ons. That's how many ff extensions work out there (mine too :) ).

i would like to see this beauty on Osx :)

@Carson "you can change the polling frequency in the preferences to poll less".. where can i find this preferences? I just see the Stack Exchange Uid on Swatch options.

Any plan to release an OSX build :P?

@badp it would mean a full blown shorten urls service on stackprinter; anyway if you want to add it, source code is on github :).

@code yes but using 'badge_counts' you will have your badges collection ready to use without changing a comma in your code. Adding a new field somewhere is not that clean.

@code a stellar or wooden badge type could be added in the future, what do you know?

@code i'm not getting your point here, could you elaborate a little bit? I see badges well wrapped on badge_counts key, why do you think they need to ble flattened?

Felix, have you checked out this stackapps.com/questions/347/svg-versions-of-the-logos? I've used that useful package for my app and yes, they have trasparent backgrounds.

@S.Mark :-|....